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Vaccination Is Not Just For Children

Immunisation is always associated with children, but doctors warn that protection from some childhood vaccines can wear off over time.
Adults can also be at risk for v...

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Environment

This Week in Storms: Typhoon Kila, Sudanese Dust, Hurricane Fred

Weather prediction involves a lot of probabilities (and no certainties) and informed guesses, but weather observation gets better every year. In part we can thank NASA's Te...

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Sustainable Development

Intel Promises $50 Million for Quantum Computing Research

On Friday, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich published an open letter pledging to invest $50 million in long-term quantum computing research. Keywords here are long-term: While 2022...

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Festivals

Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context.” So wrote Mary McCarthy in her charming, philosophical tra...

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Gender

A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of ed...

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Hollywood

Film Highlights Women Who Define American Culture.

Meet 15 women who have created and defined contemporary American culture in American Masters: The Women’s List, premiering nationwide Friday, September 25, 9-10 p.m. ...

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Bollywood

Top Bollywood Actresses Come Together For India’s ‘I Am Girl Rising’ Campaign.

Contemporary actresses including Kareena Kapoor, Nandita Das, Madhuri Dixit-Nene, Parineeti Chopra, Sushmita Sen, and Alia Bhatt set their differences aside to come togethe...

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Japan Is Building A Giant Robotic Lettuce Factory

Indoor lettuce-growing is in vogue. And it’s being taken over by robots.In 2016, Japanese vegetable production company Spread plans (pdf) to begin building a lettuce ...

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Health

The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violati...

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Environment

Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, whic...

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